Job Specifications
This position is based at our Luxembourg headquarters and requires regular office presence. The EIB offers you the opportunity to live and work in a truly international and multi-cultural environment. We also offer relocation support.
The EIB, the European Union's bank, is seeking to recruit for its Group Information Systems Directorate (IS), Business Solution Department (BSD), Finance Division (FD), Back Office Debt & Payment Unit (BODP) at its headquarters in Luxembourg, an (Associate) Full-stack Java Developer*.
This is a full-time position at grade 4/5 for which the EIB offers a permanent contract.
Internal benchmark (Associate) Officer IT Applications
Panel interviews are foreseen as from November 2025
Purpose
As (Associate) Full-stack Java Developer, you will drive and manage the planning, design, implementation, testing and maintenance for software components that are complementing or connecting vendor packages used by the EIB Group.
Operating Network
You will report to the Back Office Debt & Payment Head of Unit and collaborate closely with IT colleagues and the wider user community.
The Back-Office Loans, Payment and Settlement Unit provides IT services in the fields of Lending Back-Office, SWIFT messages transmission and bank balance reconciliation.
The Bank uses ION's Wall Street Suite product to support the lending activity. You will strengthen the team in building the connectivity layer that enables the communication between ION WSS and the rest of the EIB Group's IT ecosystem. The connectivity layer is a Java module that communicates with the WSS application via CORBA or direct DB access and with other applications using web services and different messaging technologies.
Accountabilities
Prepare solution design for implementation of new business requirements
Coordinate, participate in the full life cycle of the application development, deployment, release and support
Propose ideas to develop new technical solutions and participate in the choice of appropriate IT solutions in the areas of finance to ensure that application systems are in line with business requirements whilst remaining cost effective
Build and maintain test-, build- and deployment automation
Qualifications
University degree (minimum an equivalent to a Bachelor) preferably in Information Technology or related discipline
At least 3 years' professional experience involving requirements analysis, software design, full-stack software development, 2nd level support, implementation and maintenance of enterprise information management systems, preferably in a banking environment, ideally in a mixed IT / Finance environment
Experience in designing and implementing full-stack applications, developing web services (REST/SOAP) and integrating with vendor APIs using Java
Knowledge of agile methodologies
Knowledge of version control, artifact repository and CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub, Nexus, Jenkins, AzureDevops)
Knowledge of the Object-Oriented Programming and the Design.
Ability to query data using SQL
Good knowledge of project management principles, methods and practices
Experience with one or more banking packages such as ION WallStreet, Calypso would be an advantage
Knowledge of configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet) and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) principles would be an advantage.
Experience in supervision of technical teams would be an advantage
Excellent knowledge of English and/or French (***), with a good command of the other. (Knowledge of other EU languages would be an advantage).
Experience in automating testing building/ packaging and deployment, experience with Cucumber would be an advantage
Competencies
Find out more about EIB core competencies here
(***) Unless stated explicitly as a required qualification, a good command of French is not a pre-requisite for hire. As both English and French are however official working languages of the EIB, proficiency in both languages is a pre-requisite for your future career development. Any language clause in your contract must be fulfilled in order for you to be eligible for a promotion (either via the annual appraisal cycle or via an internal selection process). Proficiency is understood to mean the attainment of level 5 of the Inter Institutional language courses, corresponding to B1.2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL). The Bank offers appropriate training support.
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